After a few months of evening and weekend work, I've published v1.1 of my open source software that turns a raw legal code into a lovely, deeply interconnected website. It's been nine years since the last release! cc: @krusynth.bsky.social, @johnathayde.com

There was a period in DC politics when people argued that bike lanes were bad because only white male gentrifiers used them.

i just had to explain to a 7 year old why there were armed soldiers at Shake Shack and i'm tired

The draft article on AI and copyright I'd posted to SSRN on 25 June is still "under review" by Elsevier. I think this is the right way to convey this here on The Socials: THE CENSORS AT ELSEVIER DON'T WANT YOU TO READ THIS SHOCKING ARTICLE ON A.I. AND COPYRIGHT: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

250 years later is still not too late to declare your independence from the Imperial System! Switch to Metric today!

We're enjoying the reflecting pool and empty National Mall because it's obvious incompetence on display but nobody died or was irreparably harmed. Let's hope it stays that way.

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Looks like EU-US data transfers of PII depend on having an independent agency in the US handling the details of privacy regulations. Now that SCOTUS has declared tnat the FTC isn't an independent agency, that arrangement is being called into question. noyb.eu/en/us-suprem...

Super-glad I got this op-ed about 12-dimensional spheres into Scientific American before it got sold out. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... It's even relevant to that article about AI+copyright I'd posted earlier this week; see papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... fn 41. #selfpromotionSunday

OK, intellectual property fans, here's a draft law review essay I wrote for you about AI and copyright. It's really about a trend in copyright jurisprudence which is distorting the AI debate. You shift the trend, you fix the debate. 1/9 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

"Springer Nature is nevertheless still selling the empty PDF for $39.95."

Normalize parasols.

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"Your ID isn't for you; it's for the bouncer and the system that put the bouncer in place."

This bot goes hard

I'm very excited to be part of this awesome virtual symposium on the future of the U.S. tax system, hosted at Democracy Journal. democracyjournal.org/category/mag... So many smart, thoughtful, and especially readable takes on what's next. My own bit is here: democracyjournal.org/magazine/81/...

Nobody knows how Caesar was born--it should be called a K-section, because we all have a good image of how the Kool-aid Man was born.

“So how did you two meet?” “We were both palace guards stationed outside the gate.” “No we weren’t.”

Are there any technology law reviews that accept submissions in LaTeX? I'd take that as a strong signal that the editors won't exclude technologist authors.

SocArXiv accepts law papers, as we always have. Some of the bells and whistles he wants we don't have- like ranking and email subscriptions, but those can be built using SocArXiv. We don't have funds or staff to help build that, but law schools do.

lastly, contrary to what a lot of blueskiers seem to be posting, the idea of trademark having a duty to police is dramatically overblown. patagonia letting pattie be does not meaningfully undermine the strength of its marks or its ability to enforce its marks against others.

Look, I'm trying to get on board with descriptive (vs prescriptive) grammar, but it still bugs me when people use "dice" as a singular. Though not as much as when they try to pluralize it to "dices."

Emerging from lurk to drop the final version of Separation of Copyright Powers, my new explainer on all the legal and historical puzzle boxes surrounding the administration's attempt to take over the Library of Congress and the Copyright Office. A quick summary... 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

In front of the committee chair is a plaque: "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." See my potato photo below.

2006: instead of buying CDs, mp3s are how you avoid paying musicians for their work. 2026: instead of streaming, where musicians get paid $1e-6 per spin, buying mp3s is how you pay musicians for their work.

AS SOMEONE WHO GOT NEED-BASED AID TO GO TO U Of C (wait why are we yelling), it's great to see the opportunity extended to more people. I wouldn't be where I am without that financial aid when I needed it.

My biggest Bluesky #FeatureRequest is a filter for screencaps of other social media sites. I know there are people on other sites posting horrible comments, but that's why I'm here and not there. Whatever you're using to autodetect and auto-tag nipples, you can use that to tag X/Truth/... logos.

This is how to respond when your university starts pushing Gemini on you

Ghosts Graphite on paper - 7x10 inches - 2026 #graphiteOnPaper

Some personal news, in song form: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ71...

If you're the editor of a law review please do yourself a favor and google "DOI". They're fabulous and your journal needs them.

this is the secret to foiaball. most journalists are..... let's just say very brusque and sometimes lack social graces. throwing in a few smiley faces every now and then goes a long, long way!

It's worth 12 victory points.

Registration is now open for Professional Development Day: 🔗 dcswa.wildapricot.org/event-6642704 This year’s conference will begin early Saturday, May 9, 2026, at George Washington University, and will end with a happy hour at the Admiral.

The data is in, and yes, more people were playing Dark Side of the Moon as Artemis II passed behind the Moon.

Great news: the biggest problems on Artemis II are the toilet fan fritzing out and a glitch with the email client.

The Congressional Research Service has really upped its visuals. Here are maps of oil and methane production/distribution through the Middle East and environs: www.everycrsreport.com/files/2026-0... www.everycrsreport.com/files/2026-0...

Update from my January 2022 article on working from VR: I'm still working from VR (even now as I write this). I spent $30 on a far more comfortable headband, but otherwise not much has changed. I still often don't know when the sun sets. www.wired.com/story/hours-working-vr-tips/

Despite its flaws and eminently skippable opinion section, a shout-out to The Post for using the right name for Malcom X Park. Accept no substitutions!

People once envisioned a future where DC wouldn't have a ~10 storey height limit.

Hey if you don't care for ssrn but want an explainer on the #CABillionaireTax (now officially Bernie-endorsed!), you can read up here: www.sfexaminer.com/news/politic... (except sorry, you first have to scroll past me, cosplaying as vest-wearing billionaire)

The IC2S2 deadline is right around the corner! We really need more reviewers to make this conference work. I know (I KNOW) you all get a lot of requests but please consider signing up, especially if you submit. It’s just a few abstracts, we’ll keep the review load light. Promise!

A tip for the casual market watchers: The Market doesn't rise or fall on good or bad jobs or inflation reports, it moves on whether the news beat expectations. To understand what The Market is thinking, check, e.g., the Bloomberg consensus forecast ( www.bloomberg.com/markets/econ... ).

We used to call them "puns" and now we call them "dad jokes" and I don't get what happened. Do moms not pun?

It all comes in cycles: in the 1980s there was Depeche Mode— a French name often translated as "fast fashion"—and now we have Taylor Swift.

Strong recommend if you are interested in cosmology. The videos are succinct – most around 6 minutes long – and the explanations are satisfying. Same goes for the "Quantum 101" videos.

People always want practical benefits to theory, so here's one: shorter meetings. Meetings where everybody is going in circles feeling around to express a complex thought are much longer and more diffuse than those where everybody shares a theoretical framework as a reference.

I'm so sick of the little boxes on my laptop

The President of the USA, whom most US voters oppose, is joining with the Prime Minister of Israel, whom most Israeli voters oppose, in attempting to topple the regime of Iran, which most Iranians oppose. It's 2026, and we're still working out the kinks in representative Democracy.